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Profile spotlights Frozen co-director Jennifer Lee
LA Weekly shares the background of Jennifer Lee, the first female director of a Walt Disney Animation Studios theatrical feature. Lee graduated from Columbia Film School, where she met her… |
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My Neighbor Totoro
…of the forest. Vignettes of Tatsuki and Mei at the school, and talking with their neighbor “Granny” follow, leading to a more magical sequence where the two sisters try to… |
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire – 2 Movie Collection
…reminded of its strengths too. It’s true that it’s not really a film that younger kids will appreciate, even given the old-school yarning and Saturday morning adventure cartoon feel of… |
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The Regular Show: The Complete First & Second Seasons
…speak so naturally, reminding me well of folks I used to go to school with, even with the craziness of the plots and weird supporting players. Rigby and especially Mordecai… |
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From Johan to Jordan: Peyo’s daughter tells the Smurfs’ story
…and became passionate about that. He’s always been an artist. At school, he used to draw on his copy-books! His first job as an adult was in animation. The movies… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #43: The Thief and the Cobbler – I Love You #SeanConnery
…wants to go back to school and Chelsea’s moved to Nashville! • What is a masterpiece? • Is it possible to be an artist and have money? Commercial successes and… |
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Monsters University coming home in October
…a look at a day in the life of the “Monsters University” crew through their own eyes. Story School – This documentary examines the challenges of creating a prequel as… |
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Full Disney D23 panel recap; Mickey Mouse in Get a Horse! to be shown before Frozen
…the most epic party the school has ever seen. In theaters May 30, 2014, with “The Good Dinosaur.” · Disneytoon Studios’ “Planes: Fire & Rescue” landed on stage at the… |
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Muslim superheroine dons a burka and possible movie deal
…a traditional burka to hide her secret identity. So what’s her backstory? Jiya is a Pakistani teacher who fights to prevent a girl’s school from shutting down and fixing the… |
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Director Stephan Franck tells The Legend Of Smurfy Hollow
…animate at least 50 percent of the push in, drawing that wide lens sensation. Also, 2D animators sometimes have an old-school habit of making everything three-quarter, so the goal is… |
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Now Playing: The World’s End and more
…about a pub crawl, there’s a lot of depth under the surface. Take out all the the bar fights and robot school girls and this would almost be a chick… |
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The Simpsons’ Marcia Wallace passes away
Sad news for Simpsons fans everywhere hit the internet last week as it was revealed that Marcia Wallace–the voice of Bart’s school teacher, Edna Krabappel–had passed away. Deadline has the… |
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Here comes Captain Underpants from DreamWorks Animation
…graders who are best friends and who draw comics that they sell on the playground. Their creation, Captain Underpants, becomes real when the duo accidentally hypnotize the school’s mean principal… |
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Director Jimmy Hayward talks turkey about Free Birds
…are traveling through time – if that’s not enough of a giveaway that you’re not at school, I don’t know what is.” Reel FX is out to make history of… |
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Do Studio Ghibli’s films make Pixar look weak by comparison?
In a recent column, Film School Rejects laments in “How ‘The Story of Princess Kaguya‘ Makes Pixar Look Bad” about the lack in variety in 2013’s potential nominees for the… |
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Frozen catches fire at the box office
…Desolation of Smaug opens, but with Chrismas break coming up and kids being out of school, Frozen probably has a lot more to put in the bank before it’s done…. |
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Disney villain’s reproduce and their kids get a movie!
…descendants (Carlos, Mal, Evvie and Jay, respectively) are allowed into the kingdom to attend prep school alongside the offspring of iconic Disney heroes including Fairy Godmother, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel and… |
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Is there Room On The Broom for the Best Animated Short Oscar?
…people. “The teams were quite small [in film school] with 3 or 4 people maximum. But in this production, I learned how to have, I think, nine animators,” says Lachauer…. |
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Disney says out with the old and in with the old?
…attention the Descendants project, about the children of Disney heroes and villains in a high school. It is a single made-for-TV movie in live-action, but it could be the start… |
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Historian draws attention to black animation art
…like your stories, their experiences were like your experience. Bill Cosby’s cartoon was so groundbreaking, it just dealt with so many issues — smoking, cheating in school, playing hooky, divorce,… |
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Frozen tops New Year’s box office; beats Monsters University
…to $271 million, topping the total gross of 2013’s Monsters University. With school out for most kids until Monday, the movie is now almost certainly a lock for $300 million…. |
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The Best Of 2013: Unlucky, Or Lucky For Some?
…Edition With the HD transfer bringing out the high-tech magic – state of the art at the time – of this golden age, delightfully old-school tribute, a comprehensive extras package… |
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DreamWorks enters the tablet market
…$300 this spring. Built in apps include “Be an Artist” that teaches kids how to draw DreamWorks characters and “School of Dragons,” a game described as an educational multi-player based… |
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Captain Underpants on DreamWorks slate
DreamWorks Animation has announced that Ed Helms, Kevin Hart, Thomas Middleditch, Nick Kroll and Jordan Peele will be starring in an upcoming feature titled Captain Underpants. The film will is… |
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Oscar nominated animated shorts of 2013
…Saturday morning pre-school show. However, that all faded to the back of mind as I was charmed by the story and the character animation. Sure I may not have been… |
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Justice League: War
…belittling his son, high school football star Victor Stone. Victor shows up at a critical moment, when the alien device is about to detonate, and ends up horribly injured. Silas,… |
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Ernest & Celestine director discusses how he started
Ernest & Celestine co-director Benjamin Renner talks about the genesis of the film with the Wall Street Journal. The “24-year-old fresh out of film school… got a phone call that… |
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The Venture Bros.: The Fifth Season
…that she cheats on the Monarch regularly. Hank and Dean have graduated from “teaching bed” high school, and are asserting their independence in different ways— with Hank opening a cheesy… |
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Animator/Director Nassos Vakalis invites us to his Dinner for Few
…me a CD with his work to listen. I was amazed. Especially I noted a music piece he wrote as his final school project; an Olympic Games hymn. I told… |
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Planes: Fire & Rescue
…quite sure at times who that age group was. The Cars/Planes films are the kind of pre-school concept probably best left to animation companies of more limited means, but with… |
